Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Konvent A Love Supreme Edit-a-thon:Expanding Feminist and Gender-Diverse Sonic and interdisciplinary Art in Wikipedia (ID: 23097569)/Final Report
Application type: Standard application
Part 1: Project and impact
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: Through this project, we aim to explore and better understand how feminist and queer approaches to community organizing, safety, and knowledge production can impact participation and content creation within Wikipedia. Our main Learning Questions are: 1. How effective are community care and safety-centered practices in improving retention of marginalized gender editors after a one-day edit-a-thon?
2. What barriers (technical, social, emotional) still persist for feminist and queer contributors, even in safer spaces, and how can we better address them?
3. How can feminist and queer pedagogies enhance participants' confidence and skills in editing, sourcing, and maintaining Wikipedia content?
4. How can partnerships with cultural institutions and activist networks strengthen the sustainability of feminist and queer editing initiatives beyond single events?
5. What strategies are most effective in protecting new content from systemic bias (such as unjustified article deletions or challenges to notability)?
We will collect both quantitative data (e.g., number of articles created or improved, retention of participants) and qualitative data (e.g., participant feedback, reflections during and after the event) to answer these questions. Our ultimate goal is to contribute not just to immediate content creation, but to developing better practices for long-term feminist and queer engagement within Wikimedia projects.
The Konvent A Love Supreme Edit-a-thon is centered on addressing gender and diversity gaps in digital knowledge spaces. Our project focuses on creating and improving Wikipedia content related to feminist, queer, and gender-diverse artists and cultural practices, while also building the capacity of marginalized communities to actively participate in knowledge production.
We are committed to fostering safer, more inclusive digital spaces, and to challenging systemic biases through collective feminist and queer editing practices.
Gender and diversity are not only themes of the content we seek to create but also fundamental principles guiding the design, methodology, and community engagement strategies of our project.
Our project specifically focuses on involving participants from underrepresented gender identities, including cis women, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming individuals.
We seek to create a safer and more welcoming space for these communities within the Wikimedia movement, recognizing the systemic barriers and harassment that gender-diverse editors often face. By centering feminist and queer knowledge production and by using community care strategies, we aim to empower participants not only to contribute to Wikipedia but also to find long-term belonging within knowledge-sharing spaces.
While gender identity is our main focus, we also embrace intersectionality by welcoming participants from diverse sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, and socioeconomic contexts.
Our project directly contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendation to "Provide for Safety and Inclusion." By creating a feminist and queer-centered edit-a-thon designed with care, community organizing, and strategies to mitigate harassment and systemic bias, we are actively building safer spaces for marginalized communities within the Wikimedia ecosystem. We prioritize participant safety through the use of anonymous or rotating accounts, provide emotional and technical mentorship, and foster collective empowerment among gender-diverse contributors.
Our approach ensures that underrepresented voices not only participate but thrive in Wikipedia and broader knowledge production spaces, reinforcing the movement’s commitment to safety, diversity, and true inclusion.
5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
Part 3: Metrics
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | ||
| Number of editors | 25 | ||
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 30 | ||
| Wikimedia Commons | |||
| Wikidata | |||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| open-access training resource | 1 open-access training resource created (training materials or editing guides shared publicly for future feminist and queer edit-a-thons). | 1 | ||
| post-event report or publication | 1 post-event report or publication documenting outcomes, lessons learned, and recommendations. | 1 | ||
| follow-up meeting | 1 online follow-up meeting organized after the event to support participants' continued engagement. | 1 | ||
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
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13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
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13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
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14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
14.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
Review notes
[edit]Review notes from Program Officer:
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Applicant's response to the review feedback.
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